Sudan, projected irrigation works in the, 136; agricultural possibilities of the, 176. Sudan, Port, on the Red Sea, 224. Sudanese, a strange people, 191. Sudd, immense swamps of the, 137. Suez, at end of the Canal, 217. Suez Canal, diversion of traffic to, 209; cost of toll, 210; its history, 210; compared to Panama Canal, 212. Suez, Gulf of, length, 220. Swahili, principal native language of Central and East Africa, 241. Tanta, agricultural centre, on the Nile, 31. Temple of Karnak, obelisks at, 122. Tewfik Pasha, talk with, 58. Thebes, archæological excavations at, 117; greatest city of antiquity, 126. Tobacco, production of, in Egypt, 39. Travel, cost of, in Africa, 144. Tuti Island, a Mahdist position facing Khartum, 182, 187. Uganda Railway, travel on the, 243; cost of construction, 247; American bridges used, 247; lions kill many during construction of railroad, 250. United Presbyterian Church mission school at Asyut, 76. Valley of the Kings, archæological excavations in the, 117. Victoria, Lake, altitude, 247; cotton plantations being established around, 302. Wakamba, tribe of East Africans, 284. Wellcome, Henry S., founder of research laboratories at Khartum, 200, 205. Whirling Dervishes, fanatical actions of, 46. Windmills, American, used for pumping water along the Nile, 33. Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, Governor-General of the Sudan, interviews with, 175, 181. Women, as labourers in Central Africa, 172. Zagazig, agricultural centre, on the Nile, 31. Zebra, in East Africa, 271.